Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1285 - XXE vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Apache log4net versions before 2.0.10 do not disable XML external entities when parsing log4net configuration files. This allows for XXE-based attacks in applications that accept attacker-controlled log4net configuration files.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 10 | |
Application | 5 | |
Application | 2 | |
OS | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-CFC319E067.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2018-1285 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2020-05-26 plugin id 136847 published 2020-05-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136847 title Fedora 30 : log4net (2020-cfc319e067) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2020-cfc319e067. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(136847); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/28"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1285"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2020-cfc319e067"); script_name(english:"Fedora 30 : log4net (2020-cfc319e067)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Security fix for CVE-2018-1285 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-cfc319e067" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected log4net package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:log4net"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/05/11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^30([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 30", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC30", reference:"log4net-2.0.8-10.fc30")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "log4net"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-847775BF79.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2018-1285 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2020-05-26 plugin id 136840 published 2020-05-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136840 title Fedora 31 : log4net (2020-847775bf79)
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/reab1c277c95310bad1038255e0757857b2fbe291411b4fa84552028a%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-575
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0001/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2U233HVAQDSZ2PRG4XSGDASLY3J6ALH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VKL2LPINAI6BCMXOH4V4HVHGLUXIWOFO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VT2DNNSW7C7FNK3MA3SLEUHGW5USYZKE/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r33564de316d4e4ba0fea1d4d079e62cde1ffe64369c1157243d840d9%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9de86a185575e6c5f92e2a70a1d2e2e9514dc4341251577aac8e3866%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6543acafca3e2d24ff4b0c364a91540cb9378977ffa8d37a03ab4b0f%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7ab6b6e702f11a6f77b0db2af2d5e5532f56ae4b99b5fe73c5200b6a%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdbac24c945ca5c69cd5348b5ac023bc625768f653335de146e09ae2d%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd2d72a017e238d1f345f9d14e075c81be16fc68a41c9e9ad9e29a732%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00b16ac5e0bbf7009a0d167ed58f3f94d0033b0f4b3e3d5025cc4872%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r525cbbd7db0aef4a114cf60de8439aa285decc34904d42a7f14f39c3%40%3Cdev.logging.apache.org%3E